Rustie EP launch, Friday 1 October

Rustie, king of all things bleepy and bloopy, is having a party to celebrate the release of his 'Sunburst' EP for Warp Records.

Hosted by hip London promoters Deadly Rhythm (usually found packing out Plan B in Brixton), the event has a cracking lineup featuring Harmonic 313, Untold and of course the eternal child himself (Rustie still looks 12, bless).

If you get your skates on, you can still bag a £6 early bird ticket.

Friday 1 October
Rustie's Sunburst EP Launch Party
@ The Camp,70-74 City Road, Old Street
10pm-4am 

Click here for more details

Deadly Rhythm: 2562 and Martyn

It seems that Deadly Rhythm lost the battle against FWD on Friday night.

Considering it carried a hefty lineup featuring 2562 and Martyn, the 'bass music' promotion at Plan B in Brixton wasn't as busy as it should have been, and it was clear that most of London had headed to Matter instead for dubstep and grime's biggest outing.

Plan B is smashing it these days. After a fire in May 2009 it was refurbished and reopened with a better sound system, better layout and some of the most cutting-edge DJs in dance music. Deadly Rhythm is one of its best nights and, despite the shortfall in numbers, Friday proved a winner (judging by the amount of gravity skankage at the front).

For what is usually quite a warbly affair, there was little dubstep. Instead we had garage, tech house and 'future garage' (more info on that here) blended into a storming night of... well, bass music.

The second room didn't open, which meant everyone was in attendance for headliner Martyn. His set was sadly delayed by yours truly, drunkenly requesting the DJ write a love letter to my-friend-who-is-your-biggest-fan. Martyn's response? 'Your mate should spend more time with his girlfriend.' Bless him, he still wrote the letter.    

It's just been announced that Martyn is doing a back to back with Kode 9 at Bloc Weekend. Pens at the ready...